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30s / TV-PG
Not-always-willing subjects of a utopian family experiment, the eight men of the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble were forged into a band as kids by their father, jazz maverick Phil Cohran. Now making their way on the streets and in the music business, they test their father's ideals against their own brotherly vision.
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Brothers Hypnotic: The Principle of Simplicity

1m 52s / TV-PG
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Brothers Hypnotic, the brothers discuss how their father, Phil Cohran, taught them the importance of long tones in playing horns, to play one note as steady as possible, “the principle of simplicity.” We also seem them playing their horns outside, magically.
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Brothers Hypnotic: Clef the Trombonist

1m 1s / TV-PG
This excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Brothers Hypnotic, Seba aka “Clef,” tells us how he started playing the trombone when he was 4 years old, taught by his father Phil Cohran. He demonstrates how he learned to properly use the horn’s mouthpiece as a boy, until he was able to achieve even tone.
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Medora: Coach Keeps the Faith

1m 3s / TV-PG
In this clip from the Independent Lens documentary Medora, we watch the struggling Medora High basketball team lose another game but get a pep talk from their coach, Justin Gilbert, about how proud he is and about how they do have talent. "We're gonna get better," he promises. "I'll never lose faith in you guys."
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Medore: Basketball in a Poor Town

58s / TV-PG
In this clip from the Independent Lens documentary Medora, we watch Chaz Cowles, one of the students featured in the film, bike around his economically devastated town and tell us about how hard-hit Medora has been in recent years. "Other schools don't expect nothing from us," he says. "Medora's been in the gutter."
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30s / TV-PG
Medora follows the down-but-not-out Medora Hornets, capturing the players’ stories on and off the court as they seek to avoid another winless season. Medora is an in-depth, deeply personal look at small-town life, a thrilling, underdog basketball story, and an inspiring tale of a community refusing to give up hope despite brutal odds stacked against them.
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Coming Soon to Independent Lens: Medora

2m 20s / TV-PG
Medora follows the down-but-not-out Medora Hornets, capturing the players’ stories on and off the court as they seek to avoid another winless season. Medora is an in-depth, deeply personal look at small-town life, a thrilling, underdog basketball story, and an inspiring tale of a community refusing to give up hope despite brutal odds stacked against them.
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All of Me: Taking a Chance on Surgery

1m 34s / TV-PG
In this clip from the Independent Lens documentary All of Me, the heaviest of the Girls, Zsalynn worries about her daughter's life and future which is a crucial reason she wants the weight-loss surgery. Meanwhile, Judy nervously heads to the hospital for her own surgery.
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Coming Soon to Independent Lens: All Of Me

2m 17s / TV-PG
A group of women friends who met via the Austin chapter of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance and have tried every diet and diet pill, go through weight-loss surgery in an effort to lose hundreds of pounds. The experience presents a host of issues and consequences, some they never could have imagined.
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30s / TV-PG
A group of women friends who met via the Austin chapter of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance and have tried every diet and diet pill, go through weight-loss surgery in an effort to lose hundreds of pounds. The experience presents a host of issues and consequences, some they never could have imagined.
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All of Me: Big Beautiful Women

1m 13s / TV-PG
In this clip from the Independent Lens documentary All of Me, Judy explains what the BBW (Big Beautiful Women) gathering is and how before she went she had no idea she was the object of so many men's fetishes. She then emphasizes how her marriage to Marty differs from that; for one thing, "he didn't ask me my bra size.”
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All of Me: HeavyWeight Yoga

3m 52s / TV-PG
In this video extra from the Independent Lens documentary All of Me, the Austin “Girls” take a yoga class led by Abby Lentz, founder of HeavyWeight Yoga. She teaches the “three A’s,” Awareness, Acceptance, and Affection.
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All of Me: Support Group

4m 47s / TV-PG
In this video extra from the Independent Lens documentary All of Me, we see a support group for people — including some of the “Girls” — who’ve had or will have weight-loss surgery. In the group they are encouraged to talk about “changes in attitude and changes in latitude.”
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Coming Soon to Independent Lens: Las Marthas

30s / TV-PG
In the lingering aftermath of the U.S.-Mexican War, the border town of Laredo, Texas created an annual debutante ball unlike any other. Las Marthas follows two Mexican American girls carrying this gilded tradition on their shoulders during a time of economic uncertainty and tension over immigration.
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Spies of Mississippi: Many Shades of Opinion

48s / TV-PG
This excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Spies of Mississippi looks at the people involved in the movement who ended up on the “other side,” who ended up working against the movement. They were either those who did not think it could possibly win, while some just could not believe the government would be involved in anything illegal.
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Spies of Mississippi: Not-So-Secret Meetings

37s / TV-PG
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Spies of Mississippi, some of the black leaders in the civil rights movement became more aware something suspicious was going on when white agents started showing up at their meetings, even if not yet aware of Sovereignty Commission. They just knew their meetings were not a secret: “by the time we leave in the morning, they gonna know anyway.”
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Spies of Mississippi: Training for Three Things

41s / TV-PG
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Spies of Mississippi, we learn about the training civil rights activists from the north went through in Ohio for the 1964 Summer Project, to prepare themselves “to be beaten, to be put in jail, and to be killed.”
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Coming to Independent Lens: The State of Arizona

1m 54s / TV-PG
This topical documentary captures the explosive emotions and complex realities behind Arizona’s headline-grabbing struggle with illegal immigration. Tracking the year after Arizona passes SB1070, its controversial “papers please” law, the film tells the stories of Arizonans on all sides of this divisive issue and depicts a state and its people testing the edges of our democratic values.
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